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Mount Pleasant Street, Dowlais
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 11 Jan 2010
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Morlais Tavern, Dowlais
Situated in Mount Pleasant Street http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1661883 .
Starting over 100 years ago in one iron workers terraced house, it now occupies the space of four.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 11 Jan 2010
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Alma Street, Dowlais
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 11 Jan 2010
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Beulah Baptist Chapel, Dowlais
Situated in Victoria Street.
The date is 1856.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 11 Jan 2010
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Veterinary Practice, Dowlais
Situated in Victoria Street.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 11 Jan 2010
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on the chapel east side of Victoria Street. It marks a point 312.731m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 29 Oct 2017
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Ordnance Survey Cut Mark
This OS cut mark can be found on the wall west side of Victoria Street. It marks a point 314.078m above mean sea level.
Image: © Adrian Dust
Taken: 29 Oct 2017
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The Bruce, Dowlais (Year 2000)
Photographer Ben Brooksbank's Profile: http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/44502
The Bruce Hotel on Victoria street in Dowlais, at its intersection with Odessa Street (left) and Station Street. Note the remains of a railway bridge over Station Street. Ivor Iron Works was just a few hundred metres to the North East of this location, until it closed in 1987 (demolished 1988). Dowlais Central Railway Station was just a short distance South of this location. See also Ivor Road, SSE of this location:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2220754
Image: © Ben Brooksbank (Geograph member)
Taken: Unknown
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Dowlais Pharmacy
Situated in Victoria Street.
Image: © Robin Drayton
Taken: 11 Jan 2010
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Site of the former Ivor Iron Works, Dowlais (Year 2000)
Photographer Ben Brooksbank's Profile: http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/44502
The works closed in 1987 (demolished 1988). This photo was taken someplace on the site close to the Bruce Hotel on Victoria Street. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2220537.
The skyline is Merthyr Common, and you can also see a narrow shelter belt lying alongside the A4060 dual carriageway (Merthyr Eastern bypass). Much of the view takes in reclaimed land, as it would have formerly been dominated by an enormous slagheap that was nicknamed "Whitey" by the locals. Certainly when I first saw it, circa 1968, it looked a bit like a snow-covered mountain.
The following excellent historical site is a must if you have any interest in the Welsh 'Mountains of the Moon':
http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/old_merthyr.htm
http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/dowlais.htm
http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/iforworks.htm
Image: © Ben Brooksbank (Geograph member)
Taken: Unknown
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